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Steve Martin Rides Into Town With The Steep Canyon Rangers

• 3rd Nov 2009

Steve Martin

First ‘Clawhammer’ performance in the UK with The Steep Canyon Rangers
9th November at The Royal Festival Hall

Support from Mary Black

An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo

“This is prime entertainment, as parodic comedy chaos is grafted onto sheer musical substance. The compulsive charisma of Martin is witnessed at close range.” Brooklyn Vegan

Award-winning actor, comedian and film star, Steve Martin is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, heralded as a bluegrass player of note who has collaborated with heavyweights of the genre including Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill and John McEuen.

Master of the difficult five-fingered playing style known as clawhammer, Steve Martin appears for the first time in the UK with his bluegrass band The Steep Canyon Rangers performing tracks from his acclaimed new album: The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.
Support comes from Mary Black, a seminal figure in Irish music and acclaimed as one of the finest female vocalists in the world.

Monday 9th November, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm, Tickets £55 £40 £25
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/book-tickets?perfno=49467